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    Angus Taylor elected leader of the Liberal Party
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    Angus Taylor elected leader of the Liberal Party


    Fantastic. Great move. Well done Angus / s

    This mean's that Sussan Ley's reign as the first female leader of the Liberal Party has now ended after 276 days, making her the second shortest serving leader of the Liberal party (title of shortest serving leader goes to Alexander Downer).

    Only Angus Taylor and Sussan Ley nominated for the role – the final vote was 34 to 17.

    33 votes were in favour of the spill, 17 votes were against it, and 1 informal.

    Jane Hume has been elected deputy leader

    Three rounds of voting were needed for the deputy leader role.

    Round 1 – Jane Hume – 20 votes, Ted O'Brien – 16, Dan Tehan -13, Melissa Price – 2

    Round 2 – Jane Hume – 21 votes, Ted O'Brien – 18 votes, Dan Tehan – 11 votes (+ 1 informal vote)

    Round 3 – Jane Hume – 30 votes, Ted O'Brien – 20 votes

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-13/federal-politics-live-blog-liberal-spill/106339480

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    6. Partzy1604 on

      Elected the guy who is less popular among their own voters than the current unpopular leader, amazing job.

    9. HotPersimessage62 on

      Fun facts:

      – Sussan Ley has served as Opposition Leader for exactly 9 months (13 May 2025 to 13 February 2026)

      – This spill happened on Friday the 13th

    10. Expensive-Horse5538 on

      Moderates should now start looking for jobs outside of Parliament, or heading to the teal camp, because most of them will likely lose their seats at the next election with Angus no doubt steering the party further right.

    12. AntiqueFigure6 on

      Oh, well, that should ensure complete electoral oblivion for the Coalition. Thanks for the memories, see you on the flip side. 

    17. Expensive-Horse5538 on

      Meanwhile Abbott trying to remain relevant by inseritng himself into the debate insiting that the Liberals should get behind Taylor, even though he helped undermine Turnbull.

    18. EbmocwenHsimah on

      So let me get this straight: Sussan Ley’s legacy as leader of the Liberals boils down to complaining that Labor won’t hold a royal commission into the Bondi shooting, then complaining that Labor’s decided to hold a royal commission because it’s taken them too long.

      (Oh, and blew up the Coalition twice.)

    23. yb0t on

      Right now this reminds me of the clusterfuck of a company I used to work for that had such disorganized customer service operations that literally everyone at the table took a turn at being manager.

    29. ValuableLanguage9151 on

      Feel like this position will peel off a lot of Teal voters and we’ll see the real cross bench increase.

      Taylor will chase the hardcore conservative vote but One Nation will just push the goal posts out further meaning they won’t appeal to moderate liberals and can’t be hardcore enough for the far right.

    30. Life-King-9096 on

      Damn, the Liberals don’t learn do they? You win elections in a compulsory voting country like Australia by appealing to the centre, Angus cannot do that. You may rebut with Argentina, but they were far worse off than Australia and they elected an anarcho capitalist, not a conservative.

      Albanese and Labor can start the chant now, three more years although as a conservative LNP will attract One Nation voters and One Nation is attracting Labor voters, the Teals may hold the balance of power.

    34. shofmon88 on

      “Well done Angus” really sums up how unappetising this will be with voters. It really should “medium-rare Angus” at the very least.

    35. Fluid-Ad-4740 on

      so the guy who, when appointed as a cabinet minister, blatently and corruptly ripped off taxpayers by claiming tax payer money for rain that fell on his property just defeated the corrupt former cabinet minister who blatently ripped off tax payers for claiming expenses on travel to buy personal real estate property, and is now the corrupt leader of the most corrupt party in Australian political history. ok that makes sense. Good old Liberal Party! Even their name is a lie.

    36. SilverAnxious2262 on

      Remind me in less than 827 days when Andrew Hastie comes to stab Taylor in the back for the leadership pre election

    37. WontThinkStraight on

      Now that the deck chairs have been rearranged, the Libs can focus on steering into the iceberg for a fourth time.

    39. Dismal_Armadillo_601 on

      The leader of the opposition is a guy best known for losing a feud with a simpsons meme page, and for forgetting to switch to his burner before commenting on his own posts.

      Albo is going to be around for a long time.

    41. Glad-Menu-2625 on

      Ahh yes the glass cliff in full effect. Nothing to see here. No woman problem. Luckily a man has stepped in to make it right.

    42. Ok_Attorney_1768 on

      The Libs changing leaders because their polls are poor is like changing your shirt after you shit your pants. It fails to address the real problem.

    43. cryptofomo on

      they replaced a woman with a superfluous *s* in her name with a man with a superfluous *g* in his.